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September 8, 2026 - Judges 4 & Proverbs 14:13-16 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Tuesday, September 8th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Judges 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died, and the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabon, King of Canaan, who reigned in Hazar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Hagoim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Deborah, the prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Raham and Bethel, in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: She sent and summoned Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kadesh Naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun, and I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jaban's army, to meet you by the river Kishon, with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Barak said to her, If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, I will surely go with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kadesh, and Barak called out Zebulin and Naphtali to Kadesh, and ten thousand men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Heber, the Kenite, had separated from the Kenites and the descendants of Hobab, the father in law of Moses, and he pitched his tent as far away as the oak at Za Naim, which is near Kadesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinuam had gone up to Mount Tabor, Sisera called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the men who are with him, from Herosheth Hagoim to the river Kishon, and Deborah said to Barak, Up, for this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does not the Lord go out before you?
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  SPEAKER_00: So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him, and the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots, and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot, and Barak pursued the chariots, and the army to Harasheth Hagoim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword, not a man was left.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber, the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin and the king of Hazor, and the house of Heber the Kenite, and Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me, do not be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to her, Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, is anyone here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Say no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jael, the wife of Heber, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he died.
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  SPEAKER_00: And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead with a tent peg in his temple.
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  SPEAKER_00: So on that day God subdued Jabin, the king of Canaan, before the people of Israel, and the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabon, the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabon, King of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs fourteen, verses thirteen through sixteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
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  SPEAKER_00: The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a fool is reckless and careless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of reckless and careless and evil, we look into the book of Judges once again and see Israel doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are reaping what they have sown, and there are thorns abounding, thorns of Israel, the kings of uh of the people that were not driven out, are continuing to oppress God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's sending these kings in order to press and test the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the book of Judges, we see uh another instance of a judge saving uh the people of Israel, and this time it's Deborah uh recruiting Barak, she's a prophetess and speaking uh for the Lord, giving victory, giving insight to this victory to Barak.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it comes by another woman named Jael.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way she takes out this Canaanite uh battle leader, this commander uh of King Jabin of Canaan uh dies via tenth spike to the head.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the story you are going to hear most often in a third to fifth grade or younger uh classroom on a Sunday morning or a midweek um training.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not a story as it is graphic, but it is still the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is still God's word and the history of his people, the history of of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um there's a there's a connection here to a backsliding, and you can't you can't backslide unless you have you have taken steps of faith forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in this sense, we we see Israel stepping into the promised land, not driving out all inhabitants, and now they are they're they're backsliding, they're they're following after uh the gods and inter intermarrying, they are worshiping false gods, and they're doing evil what's in the sight of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this has consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: The consequences are oppression.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's people were oppressed cruelly, it says in Judges 4, verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, 900 chariots of iron he used to oppress the people of Israel cruelly for 20 years, 20 years of oppression, 20 years of uh of harassment, and the the people of Israel are are going up and down on the seesaw of um of judges saving, falling back into wickedness, judges saving, God sending uh a people to provide relief, and this time it is it is Deborah, the prophetess.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God continues to remain faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ten thousand come and and slay, not one was a survivor, not a man was left in verse sixteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um they all fell by the edge of the sword, and the the fleeing commander uh gets gets it worse, he gets a tenth spike, and then ultimately King Jabin of Canaan is destroyed in verse 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though it is good to see God's people being saved, there is relief from their torment, uh, which is self-inflicted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is bittersweet to see them continue to fall back into their sin, into their their wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our verse that opens our Proverbs section today speaks to mixed emotions once again, a bitter sweetness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 13 says, even in laughter, the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a in a way I can make a connection to the previous verse where the the backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the things that that bring us joy and bring us laughter rememb uh reminds us of the things that that were once good or the things that we once enjoyed, and and this can be a heavy reality for uh for some of us who have, by God's blessing, understood and enjoyed rich fellowship and and rich joy uh with one another in times of of loss or in in times of times of sorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh you may ache, your heart may feel heavy, you might be feeling painful, the painful sting of of remembering good times.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh God is there to comfort you, even in this.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is there while you laugh, while there is joy in your life, uh, He is uh omniscient, He is all powerful, He is going to sustain you through the mixed bag of emotions that we as humans can experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a reminder for me to uh to follow up and check in with people.
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  SPEAKER_00: My prayer is for God to be their comfort, uh for him to be their their peace, and and to think about uh to think about the the goodness that he brings uh through salvation and through uh a reality that he will wipe every tear away one day.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will continually be our joy for now and and forever if we if we love him and he is ours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the backslider in heart here is someone again, like I mentioned earlier, someone who has once uh been in a position where they are following God, they are obeying him, they are following his lead, and there's an abrupt um point in time when they are are no longer doing that in their heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are following after and consumed with their own desires and going after their own passions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when this happens, you reap the fruit of your ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the same goes with those who are are good and and following after God, um, those who are continuing to walk in his ways on the level path, on the the narrow, uh straight and narrow path through the narrow gate that that leads uh to life and are are following.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um two verses, the second half of this Proverbs section today draws our attention to those who would maybe easily uh believe things or maybe are impulsive in thought, or those who wouldn't assess uh a decision well before taking steps forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people would be those who are are are reckless or careless, as verse 16 describes, people who are not cautious to to weigh and evaluate and assess the decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh or maybe you might be thinking of um of infomercials.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm often drawn back to that where something seems so easy or so uh so good and it costs so little.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um but when we when we get the product or we we understand what is really going on, it's like, oh, I I was I was duped.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I wasn't really understanding what this was this advertisement was or what the cell is is truly providing, uh whether it's a product or or insight or wisdom, uh we have a responsibility to to think twice, and we have a responsibility to to seek God's wisdom in the things that we are being told, the things that are being marketed to us in our world today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking of uh the Bereans, those who uh Paul references in the in the book of Acts, those who would be uh assessing and comparing his words to the scriptures, to uh to the old testament, to the prophets, and he is uh he commends them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul is is one who is trying to build them up and say, yes, that is a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check my work, check my uh check my words, see if they align, if they agree with scripture, and that is something that that we would do well to do uh also today.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look at God's word preached on a Sunday or in our own Bible reading, and we have these thoughts that come to mind, are are you holding them captive and are you asking where where is this affirmed in scripture?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can I know that this thought that I'm thinking is accurate to to God's character, to to God's written word for us?
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we think, as we pray, we need to be aligning our minds and our thoughts and our words with scripture to be careful and to not be a fool, avoiding reckless thought or reckless behavior that would do us harm, that would do others harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we don't want to be simple, like verse 15 says.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be mature, we don't want to be believing everything that people tell us, but it would be um God's God's goodness given to us that we would be prudent and that we would think thoroughly through our steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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